Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

I have sleepless nights before press days.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.

Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Live your life today without any fear of unknown.Be strong and courageous to seek new path.

There is more goodness than evil in the world, but you know, you still got to work at it.

It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.